What We Can learn

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world has ever been to a nuclear war. The alert level in the United States was Defcon 2, which means we were fully prepared for a nuclear war. That was the highest alert level the US has ever been on.  Millions of lives were saved from the cooperation of Kennedy and Khrushchev.  It was their awareness that saved lives. They both realized the dangers of nuclear war, and made the right decisions to avoid it.